Lack of agreement on fragmentation metrics blurs correspondence between fragmentation experiments and predicted effects

Ecology and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Bogaert, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Landscape metric; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879947379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00495-0701r06     Document Type: Letter

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